معرفی و دانلود کتاب World Literary Readings

معرفی کتاب World Literary Readings

کتاب World Literary Readings اثری کاربردی و خواندنی است که آثار داستانی برگزیده و پر افتخار جهان را به صورت خلاصه معرفی می‌کند. در این کتاب 47 اثر ماندگار در ادبیات داستانی به زبان انگلیسی گردآوری شده که نویسندگان به تلخیص و ذکر ویژگی‌های بارز ادبی، ژانر و مکتب آن‌ها پرداخته‌اند.

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این اثر که حاصل تلاش معلمان، نویسندگان و ویراستاران است، شامل حدود 50 داستان و رمان مشهور و ماندگار در ادبیات جهان، است و شما را مختصری با شاهکارهای ادبی دنیا هم به لحاظ مضمون و درونمایه و هم به لحاظ سبک آشنا می‌سازد. بسیاری از آثاری که در این کتاب گردآوری و نقد شده‌اند، تا کنون باعث خلق و الهام آثار متعددی توسط نویسندگان و فیلم‌سازان مطرحی گشته‌اند.

اگر چه فایده و لذت مطالعۀ هر یک از این آثار ارزشمند انکارنشدنی است، اما با مطالعۀ کتاب World Literary Readings می‌توانید مروری بر شاهکارهای ادبی جهان داشته باشید و تا حد زیادی با محتوا و نویسندگان‌شان آشنا شوید. علاوه بر این، نوشتن این گونه کتاب‌ها کمک شایانی به آشنایی دانشجویان رشته‌های ادبیات و ترجمه با متون کلاسیک می‌کند.

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About the World Literary Readings

This book provides you with the combined efforts of teachers, writers, and editors who have studied, taught, and analyzed what literary classics mean to literature as a whole and to you in particular. You should use these summaries as starting points to open yourself to encountering, understanding, and appreciating literature

These summaries are intended as a supplementary aid to all students of literature or those who are interested in literary readings in general. They are also helpful in preparing for an examination, eliminating the burden of trying to reread the full text under pressure and sorting through class notes to find that which is of central importance. A thorough appreciation of literature allows no shortcuts

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Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Part I

We are introduced to the major families through the vehicle of a soiree at the Anna Pavlovna’s home, a name-day celebration at the Rostovs, and a description of the isolated existence of the Bolkonskys at their country seat. Prince Andrey and Pierre discuss their futures and what they seek in life, both young men idealizing the “man of destiny” who is soon to invade Russia. Old Count Bezuhov dies, leaving Pierre wealthy, titled, and the most eligible bachelor in Petersburg

Part II

Nikolay Rostov and Prince Andrey undergo their first war experience at the battle of Schöngraben. They each discover the ineffectuality of the individual in a mass situation. Nikolay accepts being a “cog in a machine” and Andrey rejects being part of the administering forces, choosing, instead, to fight at the front

Part III

Pierre marries Ellen; Anatole unsuccessfully courts Marya. Andrey attends the war council on the eve of Austerlitz and wishes to be a hero. He is wounded during the battle. Compared to the limitless sky, which symbolizes death, Napoleon seems to Andrey petty and insignificant

Part IV

Nikolay, with Denisov, is home on leave and he ignores his sweetheart Sonya. Pierre wounds Dolohov in a duel over Ellen’s alleged infidelity. Liza Bolkonsky dies giving birth to a son, leaving Andrey with a deep sense of unassuageable guilt.

Dolohov falls in love with Sonya and avenges her rejection of him by fleecing Nikolay during a card game. “Intensity” is the keynote of this section, shown by incidents of love and hate, life and death

فهرست مطالب کتاب

Introduction
1-Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
2-Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya’ Bless Me, Ultima
3-Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
4-Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
5-Honoré de Balzac's PÈRE GORIOT
6-Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
7-Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
8-Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
9-Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
10-Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim
11-James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans
12-Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage
13-Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
14-Dickens’ Great Expectations
15-Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
16-Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
17-George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss
18-Edward Forster’s A Passage to India
19-Golding’s Lord of the Flies
20-Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native
21-Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
22-Hugo’s LES MISÉRABLES
23-Huxley’s Brave New World
24-James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
25-Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
26-Jack London’s The Call of the Wild
27-Jack London’s White Fang
28-Melville’s Moby-Dick
29-Morrison’s Beloved
30-Orwell's 1984
31-Orwell’s Animal Farm
32-Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
33-Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
34-Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
35-STENDHAL'S The Red and the Black
36-Stowe’s Uncle Tom's Cabin
37-Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
38-Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
39-Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
40-Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
41-Wharton’s Ethan Frome
42-Zola's Nana
43-James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain
44-Cather’s My Ántonia
45-Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables
46-Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
47-JAMES' The Ambassadors
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